British Breakfast Invasion

Muesli resides in a breakfast netherworld, not quite granola and nothing like your standard American breakfast cereal. But for a good portion of the world, muesli is pretty run of the mill breakfast fare with it's whole grain flakes, healthy profile, and general toothsome quality. But honestly, for American's muesli is only remotely popular and occupies the fringe of breakfast options along with mochi and grits.

Dorset Cereals Berries & Cherries, from the UK, may not single-handedly extricate muesli from the American breakfast fringe, but will assuredly push it a few spoonfuls forward into the axis. An import cereal at an import price (approximately $5 for a 22 ounce box), Berries & Cherries is a deliciously chewy and flavorful cereal, on account of half the box being filled with an array of dried fruits and berries. Everything from raspberries, black currants, cranberries, blueberries, and sultanas are in the mix, rounding out the otherwise commonplace oat, wheat and barley flakes. It is low in fat, low in sodium, kosher, contains no preservatives, a veritable fiber fiesta (owing to all the fruits and grains) and as the package advertises contains "no dust" (a frequent problem with muesli is that it breaks down into a fine powder after a few weeks of shipping).

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Speaking of the box, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the very handsome packaging job done on this product. Now, I am savvy enough to know that packaging does not qualify as substance, but the deep purple box with dye-cut branch motif and foil lettering is sufficiently alluring and will stand out in an aisle of vulgar and garish cereal boxes. Another plus, not directly related to the flavor or packaging, is that the Dorset Cereal company is a large contributor to a program titled Edible Playgrounds (in the UK) that is all about teaching children to grow and cook their own food by turning a portion of their school playground into viable garden space: As if you weren't charmed enough by the box.